Dan van Zyl
Daniel Jacobus van Zyl is a South African sportsman who represented his country at rugby union and played first-class cricket.
Dan van Zyl was educated at St. Alban's College and the University of Pretoria. He played his provincial rugby at Western [Province (rugby team)|Western Province] and represented the Stormers as a scrum half in the Super 12. Also capable of playing fly half, van Zyl toured Europe and the United Kingdom with the South African national [rugby union team] in 2000 and made his only Test match appearance in a fixture against England at Twickenham as a reserve. He later played with and coached Irish club County Carlow and is now the coach of Wicklow RFC as well as a player for Old Wesley.
An all-rounder who bowled right-arm off-break, van Zyl played at Northern Transvaal from 1992/93 to 1996/97 and then Boland in 1998/99. He averaged exactly a wicket a match in both forms of the game, with 26 wickets from 26 first-class appearances and 48 wickets from 48 one dayers. He never scored a hundred with the bat but managed seven half centuries in first-class cricket to finish with a respectable 1293 runs at 27.51. Van Zyl had his best season in 1995/96 when he scored 332 runs at 33.20 and took eight wickets at 24.50.